Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 36238

	Ὁ τῆς ἐνέδρας τῶν πονηρῶν δαιμόνων
	ῥυσθεὶς ἀνυμνεῖ τὸν λυτρωτὴν ἐκ πόθου.

Text source	G. Bady 2021, Les vers inédits sur les Psaumes transmis sous le nom de Nicétas Chartophylax, in R. Ceulemans, B. Crostini Lappin (eds.), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium. Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers, Uppsala, 207-258: 227
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Niketas (12th c.) (chartophylax of Hagia Sophia < Konstantinoupolis < Turkey, metropolites of Thessaloniki < Central Macedonia < Greece)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Psalter
Tag(s)	Division of the book Reference to content of the book Title
Translation(s)	Qui a été délivré de l’embûche des méchants démons loue celui qui t’a racheté par amour. Language French Source(s) G. Bady 2021, Les vers inédits sur les Psaumes transmis sous le nom de Nicétas Chartophylax, in R. Ceulemans, B. Crostini Lappin (eds.), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium. Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers, Uppsala, 207-258: 226
Comment	On the authorship of this cycle of poems, see Bady (2021: 221-223). The epigram also occurs in Par. gr. 1630 (f. 219r), where it does not function as a book epigram.
Bibliography	Secondary G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 65 (n. 4)
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[36240] ὁ τῆς ἐνεδρ(ας) τω(ν) πονηρ(ων) δαιμο(νων) [13th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 42r) (2 verses)
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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